Doyle's interest was in the functioning of the memory trace procedure, but my interest was in
how the structures of the brain could work to make such a procedure effective. I began my study
of the literature on emotions in earnest to supplement what I already knew from my studies of
brain structure, physiology, neurology, psychology, psychotherapy and other fields. The various
books I studied are listed at the end of this webpage with links to my reviews of them:
http://www.doyletics.com/doyletic.htm .

Soon an image began to emerge for me that Doyle had made a cosmological discovery which
affected every human being and that a science needed to be created for the body of knowledge
which will accrue from his discovery. I had already begun using the word "doyles" to refer to the
physical body states stored before five years old. This came about because in my first two years
of meeting Doyle Henderson we spent several hours a day emailing each other and I insisted on
using "physical body states" instead of "feelings" and "emotions" because I had come to see
from my early research that if these physical body states comprised the substrate of what people
called feelings and emotions. One day after having typed "physical body states" a hundred times
or so, I told Doyle I needed a short, one-syllable name to replace "physical body states" and I was
going to use his name in lowercase and plural, "doyles".

That was a fortuitous decision because when I came to found the science which was to embody
Doyle's discovery, the word "doyletics" fit beautifully as a name for the science. The name will
forever honor the innovator, Doyle Henderson, who made the original cosmological discovery
upon which the science is based. It allowed me to give a simple operational definition of
doyletics as the study of doyles, just as genetics is the study of genes. In fact, if genetics can be
called the science which studies the acquisition and transmission of physical body traits, then
doyletics can be called the science which studies the acquisition and transmission of physical
body states. Bodily traits are carried by genes in the genetic structure first generated at
conception, and bodily states are carried by doyles stored in the limbic region of the brain during
events before five years old. Bodily traits comprise the physical structure of the human body
such as eye and hair color, height, facial features, etc., and they are acquired from one's parents.
Bodily states comprise all the doylic events stored between 2 months after conception and five
years old, and they are acquired during that time from the events and the people in one's life:
one's parents, caregivers, relatives and friends. Just as eye color may be acquired genetically
from one's mother, a dislike for sauerkraut can be acquired doylicly from one's father. The word
doyletics is to be treated as the words designating other sciences such as: genetics, physics,
chemistry, biology, etc., — it is not capitalized inside a sentence.

Early on in my founding the science of doyletics I sat down with Doyle and Betty Henderson and
explained what I was going to do. I wanted to explain how doyletics worked and how people can
do a simple memory trace to remove doyles. The three of us could understand that this would
likely remove the market for Doyle's software, and I asked their permission to proceed. Doyle
and Betty were unanimous and enthusiastic in approving my plans. With their blessing I formed
the website http://www.doyletics.com and began bringing the simple memory trace procedure
called the speed trace to the world.

We called it the "speed trace" because a typical trace before then required about 30 minutes to an
hour to complete with the progressive relaxation and cycling around the original event (which
required returning to a relaxed state after each time). In the beginning my own speed traces took
about 10 minutes or so, as I focused on remembering events at each five year time mark in my
life as I went down. Soon I discovered that remembering events was not only unnecessary, but it
was distracting. It caused some people to get off the track and destroyed the effectiveness of the
trace because the doyle they were tracing could be replaced by some other doyle triggered by a
memory. Whenever that happens the trace will assuredly fail. Only later did I discover how short a trace can be and still
be effective. One day I did a trace in under ten seconds from beginning to end with
complete effectiveness. After that experience, I knew that the shorter the trace, the more likely it
would be effective. The brevity helps ensure that the doyle being traced will remain active during
the whole trace.

If you know about internal combustion automobiles, you knows that you need FUEL and
SPARK in order for the engine to run. That can help you to remember the two requirements for a
successful trace: HOLD and MARK

HOLD — you hold onto the doyle until you go below five years old (or the doyle is holding onto
you)

MARK — you go systematically down your time marks. A time mark is an age that you say
during the trace as you go from your current age to below five years old. The selection of which
time marks to use are an individual decision: you need to find about seven plus or minus two
time marks between your current age and five years old. A simple way is to use increments of 5 if
you're under 35 and 10 if you're over 35. Thus for a 42-year-old: 42, 40, 35, 30, 25, 20, 15, 10, 5
or for a 68-year-old: 68, 60, 50, 40, 30, 20, 10, 5. For a child under 12, use every year.

Speed Trace Instructions

The instructions for riding a bicycle are simple. Sit on the bicycle and start pedaling. But I dare
you to tell that to a child whose never ridden a two-wheeler for the first time and see if that
simple instruction works. Do you remember when you rode a two-wheeler for the first
time? When you let go from the ground to reach the pedal, you fell over. Before you could ride a
two-wheeler, you had to learn the trick of coordinating all the tasks of letting go of the ground,
reaching the pedal before you fall over, and pedaling the bike forward fast enough to reach
stability.

But any child can learn to ride a two-wheel bike easily if it has training wheels. The training
wheels keeps their attention on learning to move the bike forward and having a successful
experience of enjoying riding a bike without the pains of failing by falling over.

The training wheels for a speed trace are this: choose a doyle to trace that is easy to HOLD and
then go down the time MARKs. For most people, the easiest doyles to begin with are food dislike
doyles. Why? Because they are so easy to trigger and they stay around for while so the HOLD
condition is easily satisfied. In addition a successful trace is easy to confirm.

To trigger a food dislike that will stay around while you do your first speed trace is simple: select
a food that you strongly dislike, buy some of the food, cook it if necessary, and set the food in
front of you while you do the speed trace. The constant stimulation of the look and smell of the
food will likely be enough to keep the doyles on HOLD while you trace. (If necessary to evoke
the doyles, eat a small amount of the food to start.)

When the food is ready, set it before you, and when you feel the doyles rising in you, BEGIN:

Go down your time marks, going backwards or down the time MARKs to five years old saying
this words (ALOUD the first trace or two or three), using "this doyle" to refer to the set of
physical body states which arose in you when you set the food in front of you and smelled it and
looked at it:

"I'm this age (say TIME MARK), and I'm experiencing this doyle."

Let's take the example of a man of 23 who feels the muscles in his face and jaw tense up as he
sees and smells the green vegetable he detests in front of him. He calls the muscle tension "this
doyle" and says aloud the words below. Note that his words are said always in the present tense, and
they are true because at each age he would have felt the same muscle tension when he
saw/smelled the despised vegetable, thus his brain moves with each TIME MARK down to the
original event:

"I'm 23, and I'm experiencing this doyle."

"I'm 20, and I'm experiencing this doyle."

"I'm 15, and I'm experiencing this doyle."

"I'm 10, and I'm experiencing this doyle."

"I'm 5, and I'm experiencing this doyle."

At this point, he may go down below the original event when he first smelled or tasted his
obnoxious vegetable, so we change what he says to acknowledge that possibility. Below five, he
says:

"I'm 4 — am I still experiencing this doyle?"

At each TIME MARK below 4 years old, he asks himself if he still experiences the onerous
effects of the vegetable. If he finds that the muscle tension he felt in his face and jaw (specific to
his own childhood experience) is gone, the answer is NO, and the trace is over.

If the answer is YES, he continues with TIME MARKs of 3, 2, 1, 9 months, 6 months, 3 months,
1 month, 1 Day Old (day after I was born), -1 Day (day before I was born), -1 month, and down
a month at a time to -7 months. When one is a two-month-old fetus in the womb is the earliest
time at which one may store doylic memories, so far as we know. Note: for food dislikes the
doyle will usually go away by 1 Day Old as one does not consume food before birth, one is
nourished through the blood one receives via the umbilical cord. (Note: some doyles may go
away slowly over several TIME MARKs.)

When the trace is over, he can ask himself (silently is okay), "What's a plausible thing could
have happened to me when I was X-years-old?" where X represents the previously unknown age
of the original event, which the speed trace has now made known.

A speed trace is in a sense like an algebraic equation where you solve for X, which is the
unknown. You get an answer for X when you HOLD the doyle and go down the TIME MARKs
to below the age of the original event, which we know from Doyle Henderson's hard work over
twenty-five years must be below five years old. Once you know X and you ask for the memory
associated with the doyle you just traced, your brain will give it up to you in some form. It may
be a sound, a dim vision, or some combination of memory components which will be your clue
as to what happened to you when the doyle was stored.

In a seminar I gave at El Paso Community College in Texas, a 60-year-old lady did a doyle trace
on her fear of scorpions which are a prevalent hazard in her home there. It went away at three
years old. She had solved for her unknown and got X = 3. She asked herself, "What's a possible
thing happened to me at AGE=3?" and suddenly saw herself being bitten by a scorpion!
Fortuitously her mother was available in the next room. I went over to her, and asked the frail,
82-year-old lady if her daughter ever got bitten by a scorpion. The old lady's hand trembled, her
eyes lit up, and she exclaimed, "Yes! When she was three years old!" A fifty-seven-year-old
memory had risen from the depths of this mother's brain into the light of day and confirmed what
her daughter had just received from asking what we call the Plausibility Question (PQ) right after
her speed trace. A lifelong fear of scorpions was gone permanently after being traced to a single
event in her life at three years old. From now on scorpions appear in her life, but she will
dispatch them without the paroxysms of fear which had held her in thrall, up until now.

What to Use the Speed Trace On

Like riding a bicycle, anyone can learn do the simple memory procedure called the speed trace.
You might fall down once or twice till you get the pedals turning smoothly and enjoy your first
ride around the block. But once you get a confirmed speed trace such as a food dislike under your
belt, the world is your oyster — where do you want to go next with your amazing vehicle?

Are there hunger pangs which plague you till you eat more than is
good for you? Trace them away.

Do you have stage fright during a meeting or making a sales
presentation? Erase those doyles.

Feel unsteady in high places? Ease yourself with a speed trace.

Feel gloomy? Lighten up with a speed trace.

Seasick? Steady yourself with a speed trace.

The list of doyles which can be traced is limitless — basically any event that could have
happened to you as a child under the age of five is capable of storing a doyle which may show up
later in you as an onerous physical body state. When it does, be ready. Are you in doubt as to
whether something is a doyle or not? When in doubt, trace it out. If it's a doyle, it will go away
upon completion of a successful speed trace. If it doesn't go away, do some other confirmed
speed traces to make sure you have the procedure correct and trace it again. It is easier to trace an
unwanted doyle than to ask someone if something may be a doyle or not. Only your body knows
the answer to that and a trace is the way of asking the question effectively. If the answer is yes,
the doyle goes away. If the doyle doesn't go away, it may be some physiological condition
unrelated to a stored doylic memory and thus not susceptible to tracing.

How do you know for sure something is a doyle? Here are some simple ways to tell if something
is a doyle in you or not. When you suspect a doyle is present, do one or all of the following
things:

Close your eyes or look away from something.

Move out of the room you're in. Does the doyle go away after a short
time?

Stop up your ears or turn off the sounds you're listening to.

Take a shower or long soaking bath.

Change to some other kind of clothes: tight to loose-fitting or vice
versa.

Talk about the same subject to a different person.

Ask yourself, "Did the doyle go away?" A "YES" answer indicates the presence of a doyle which
you may wish to trace and erase next time it arises.

This is not a comprehensive list, but it covers most of the usual ways doyles are triggered. They
can be triggered also by other doyles or memories which are completely internal. That's how
people who remember things as they go down the TIME MARKs can get lost: they trigger some
other doyle. Their brain loses track of the original doyle, and the trace fails. Since one doyle can
trigger other doyles, it's possible to have a long cascade of doyles. It might seem difficult to trace
a cascade of doyles, but it is actually quite simple: trace the first doyle in the cascade and the
cascade will never occur again! When a doyle acts as a gateway to other doyles, tracing it will
remove the trigger for the remainder of the doylic chain and you will be free of the cascade of
doyles. Thus you will find that even the simplest doyle trace may have salubrious effects on your
life by removing all the cascades which formerly were triggered by the one doyle.

This explains why you do not need to evoke a full-blown doyle in order to do a successful trace
to erase the doyle. Tracing away any mild doyle which leads to the full-blown doyle will be
effective at removing the full-blown one. No need for you to get so angry you are punching holes
in the wall to remove the anger doyle. Simply start your trace at the earliest signs of anger. In
addition, while doing the memory procedure, the speed trace removes the need for you to recover
all the possibly horrendous feelings associated with the original event. Thus, you need not
recover feelings of intense anger, e.g., that might cause you to kick holes in the wall, vomit, or
scream endlessly. Simply going back before the original event, skipping blithely over the event
without re-experiencing it, is quite effective in removing the onerous doyles. Used in this
fashion, it is quite clear that the speed trace is a memory technique for converting doylic
memories into cognitive memories.

How the Speed Trace Works

How does a speed trace do its work? In short, the brain continues to evolve through age five at
which time full cognitive memory capability is present. This was known by Sigmund Freud who
called the process "childhood amnesia." Cognitive memory is what we all call just memory, but I
use the term to distinguish it from doylic memory. Doylic memory is functional at about two
months after conception in the womb and stores the bodily states or doyles in the limbic
structures along the brain stem. These doyles contain all kinds of muscle tension, respiratory
rates, heart rates, internal organ homoeostatic settings, and links to other doyles. These doyles are
recapitulated whenever any portion of the original event impinges on the limbic region, i.e.,
whenever a doylic trigger occurs.

When you were three, e.g., you experienced some onerous physical body states. If the only kind
of memory you had available at three was doylic memory, a doylic record was made in your
limbic structure. A cognitive memory could not have been created because your cognitive
memory capability was not ready for operation — you were below five years old. Your brain
stores memory in the highest and best way it can, so later when you passed five years old, your
brain began storing only cognitive memories, what you and I call simply, memories, of every
event thereafter. But those doylic memories are still in there, firing off in every second, every
minute of every day, every year, every decade of your life. Until you do a trace.

What happens during a trace? You go down into your brain where the doylic memory was stored
and since you now have cognitive memory capability, your brain creates, for the first time, a
cognitive memory of the original event. Previously your brain had only the capability of storing a
doylic memory. Once the cognitive memory is stored, your brain will no longer cause a doyle to
arise in you from some trigger but rather it will allow you to access the cognitive memory it
stored during your speed trace. In effect, the doylic memory has been changed into a cognitive
memory.

In simple terms, the doyle which bothered you is now gone forever.

And you may be able to discover what happened to you by retrieving the cognitive memory
which was created of the original event when you did the trace by asking the PQ or Plausibility
Question.

Closing Comments

In closing, let me thank Doyle Henderson for his pioneering work which led directly to the
science of doyletics. He worked in a field very different from his own, but his knowledge of
instrumentation allowed him to see a possibility about the etiology of emotions and feelings and
other bodily states that no one before him had ever imagined: that all these originated from body
states stored during original events before five years old and recapitulated thereafter. He grasped
the origin of emotions in one superb insight and worked tirelessly for over 25 years to pinpoint
what we now call the Memory Transition Age. Thanks to him, millions of people, in fact, all the
peoples of the world, in every country will be able to remove onerous bodily states and improve
the ecology of their mind and body quickly and simply via a speed trace.

His discovery was simple as many other discoveries are. Isaac Newton's discovery of his
Three Laws of Motion led to the laws of classical mechanics and helped to create an industrial
revolution in the external physical world. Doyle Henderson's discovery will create a revolution
of equivalent importance in the internal world of emotions, feelings, and body states. Imagine a
world in which the science of doyletics is taught in the grade schools of the world. Imagine a
world in which children trace and erase onerous doyles as they grow and mature. Imagine a world
run by those children when they become adults. Imagine now the contribution Doyle Henderson
will have made to make that world possible.

You do not need to take the message in this article on faith. Learn to do the speed trace to erase
unwanted doyles in your life. Then you will be convinced that the onerous doyles you stored
before five years old can be traced and erased. And, if you can do it, so can every other person
alive today.

Do you feel like you're swimming against a strong current in your life? Are you fearful? Are you seeing red? Very angry? Anxious? Feel down or upset by everyday occurrences? Plagued by chronic discomforts like migraine headaches? Have seasickness on cruises? Have butterflies when you get up to speak? Learn to use this simple 21st Century memory technique. Remove these unwanted physical body states, and even more, without surgery, drugs, or psychotherapy, and best of all: without charge to you.